NATIONAL NEWS - Rapper and convicted rapist Sipho “Brickz” Ndlovu and his longtime friend DJ Cleo found themselves on the Twitter trends list after pictures of the two hanging out in prison during the weekend the weekend circulated on social media. DJ Cleo shared the pictures on Twitter and wrote: “We all run our own races, he fell along the way… but the race is not over”.
The DJ said he had partnered with correctional services and other stakeholders to contribute to the positive rehabilitation of inmates.
“If that’s deemed as condoning and supporting criminals then so be it. I refuse to entertain any negative spin to my good deeds,” said DJ Cleo.
Brickz was in 2017 found guilty of raping his then 16-year-old relative at his home in Ruimsig in 2013 and sentenced to 15 years in the Roodepoort Magistrates Court in Johannesburg.
During the conclusion of the presentencing proceedings, state prosecutor Pratisha Salie said there were no substantial circumstances to make the court deviate from handing down the minimum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.
“She tried to look up to him as her father, and he should’ve seen this,” Salie said.
She added Brickz was seen as a celebrity and would most likely be able to continue with his life after serving his sentence, and be a role model and send the right message to South Africans who looked up to him.
